Bugs item #1180872, was opened at 2005-04-11 09:32 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kiwimonster You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1180872&group_id=103 Category: (un)subscribing Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Kirsten Petersen (kiwimonster) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: subscriber with colon in address can't be removed Initial Comment: We are running Mailman 2.1.4 on debian. Somehow, one of our lists wound up with an improperly formatted address like this: mailto:username@domain.com The list administrator is not able to remove this member from the web interface. When I attempt to remove them with remove_members, I get this traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./remove_members", line 186, in ? main() File "./remove_members", line 176, in main admin_notif, userack) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 954, in ApprovedDeleteMember self.removeMember(emailaddr) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 220, in removeMember self.__assertIsMember(member) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 113, in __assertIsMember raise Errors.NotAMemberError, member

From reading rfc822, it looks like colon is not an allowed character in an email address.

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Comment By: Kirsten Petersen (kiwimonster) Date: 2005-04-11 09:40

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1122614 Incidentally, an easy way to fix this problem is to dump the membership to a file with list_members, modify the file to remove the improperly formatted address, and then use the file with sync_members. I usually do sync_members -n to see what changes it's going to make first. Of course, it would be ideal for Mailman to not allow bad characters in the email address in the first place. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1180872&group_id=103